Scribes

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• Scribes used were highly paid and well respected.
• The scribes wrote on paper made from papyrus.
• Only men could be scribes.
• Students had to remember over 700 hieroglyphs.
• Boys who wanted to become scribes had to go to scribe school.
• They were official writers and record keepers.
• The students had lots of difficulty in school.
• Students started going to scribe school at the age of five.
• They used sharpened reeds to write.
  
• Everywhere they would go the will take their tools.
  
• Most of the students would usually come from artisan or merchant families.
  

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